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Goethe's Faust takes a devilishly delightful jaunt to Africa: 3-day show opens KenCen festival featuring continent's drama, music, and dance.(Arts)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19970330
Author:Butters, Patrick
Dr. Faustus' pathetic quest - under a bemused devil's eye - to add years to his disgusting life has been rehashed as often as the Constitution has been trashed at the hands of politicians.
Yet Friday at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's suicidal alcoholic and his Mephistopheles get reworked again, this time on a different continent.
"Faustus in Africa!" presents Faust as a jaded administrator and his devilish advocate as a squirrelly, bureaucratic clerk. South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company ups the ante in three days of ...
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